Plate tectonics
Where two plates slide past each other.
What is a Transform plate boundary?
Metals that are found in a pure form, not bonded to other elements.
What are native elements?
The main hazard associated with shield volcanoes is ________.
What are Lava flows
A narrow strip of sand that separates the mainland from the ocean along some passive margin coastlines.
What is a barrier island?
A rock that forms when limestone is metamorphosed by hydrothermal fluids, adding minerals like garnet (also a pirate's favorite rock)
What is a skarn?
A mid-ocean ridge would be found along this type of plate boundary.
What is Divergent?
These two fossil fuels form from alteration of kerogen at different temperatures and pressures within the earth.
What are petroleum and natural gas?
A temporary rise in sea level caused by an approaching hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
The type of stream that forms where topography (and gradient) is steep.
What is a straight stream?
A dry lake bed in the desert, where evaporite minerals are deposited.
What is a playa?
The type of plate boundary where composite volcanoes are found.
What is Convergent?
Regolith that can support plant life.
What is soil?
A type of mudflow and also a volcanic hazard caused by melting ice mixing with ash during a volcanic eruption.
What is a lahar?
Glaciers erode valleys shaped like this letter.
What is U?
The slowest type of landslide.
What is creep?
Foliated metamorphic rocks would be most likely to form at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent?
P, S, L and R
What are seismic (earthquake) waves?
A solidified body of magma undergoes this type of mechanical weathering when the rocks above it are eroded away, reducing the pressure on the upper surface.
What is exfoliation?
A valley that was carved by a glacier that is now filled with sea water due to rising sea level.
What is a fjord?
This type of plate boundary is NOT associated with volcanism.
What is Transform
These elements, which are vital to making technology like cell phones and wind turbines, aren't as rare as their name implies.
What are rare earth elements?
Tsunamis are most commonly generated at these types of convergent plate boundaries.
What are subduction zones?
This type of rock forms from the deposition of sediment that has been eroded from pre-existing rock, transported, and deposited.
What is a clastic sedimentary rock?
An igneous rock formed by volcanic ash, or what this class is?
What is tuff?